Electrical conductivity for warm, dense aluminum plasmas and liquids

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Aug;66(2 Pt 2):025401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.025401. Epub 2002 Aug 26.

Abstract

The electrical conductivity of warm, dense aluminum plasmas and liquids is calculated using ab initio molecular dynamics and the Kubo-Greenwood formula. The density range extends from near solid to one-hundredth of solid density, and the temperature range extends from 6000 K to 30 000 K. This density and temperature range allows direct comparison with experimental results obtained with the tamped exploding wire technique.